Improved mop



i incited $121125 PHILIP 000K, J n.,'or Sioux oITY, IOWA.

Letters Paton-t No. 97,885, dated December 14, 1869; antedoteel December 10, 1869.

IMPROVED MOP.

The Schedule referred to in 'these Letters Patent and making part of the same I To all whom it may concern Be itknown thatI, PHILIP 000K, Jr., or swim- Gity, in the county of \Voodbury, and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Mops; and I do hereby declare that the following is This invention relates to a new and'usefulimprove ment in mops, whereby they are so arranged that they may be wrung or freed from water, when in use, by movingthe slides connected with the handle and head of the mop; and t v It cousistsin operating-rollers on the opposite sides of the mop, and inacompressetconnected therewith, as hereinafter more fully described. '-In the accompanying drawings- Figure 1 represents a longitudinal edge view of the mop.

Figure 2 is a longitudinal side view.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts. e

A is the handle. B is the head, to which the web 0 is attached by stitching 011, 1- otherwise. a

D D represent rollers, (oneon each side of the web,) which are connected with the cross-head E by means of the double wire springs F.

The springs l are so arranged and connected with 1 the cross-head that they naturally spring out from the web 0, unless they are compressed or forced together. For the purpose of thus forcingthem together, I

apply a sliding comprcsser, G, which-encloses ,the

double springs F at each edge of the mop.

When the compressor is forced down in near' 'contact with the rollers, the rollers are made tocornpress,

the web, in which position the'rollers and the compresser may be shoved .down over the web, and force the water therefrom. h hare wires or rods, attached to the cross-head, and connectcd'with the sliding band 'i.

jj are wires, connected with the compressor with the sliding band 7..

The wires h h are confined partially in grooves in the handle, and pass'u'nder the band 7:.

The two sets of wires h h and j j, with the parts connected therewith, move imlepeudent-ly of .each other, but in wringing the mop they are used'simultaneously,'the vcompresser G being placerlnear-the rolls, so as to compress the rolls together on the web.

' In using the mop, the rolls and the compressor are both drawn back, as seen inthe drawing.

G and water forced from it, by merely forcing down the bands 1 and k, which are connected with the rolls and come presser by their respective .wlres it and j.

1. Incombinationwith a mop, the rollers D I Witnesses:

ALEXANDE BAIL r WILson' -S. BAILY.

By' thisarrangement the web. maybe wrong, or the A desire to secure by Letters double springs F, and the compresser G, arranged the bands and. k; and the G, arranged substantially as and- 

